The management of Highlands Fabricators Oil Construction Yard at Nigg dismissed claims that they were to shed 1,800 jobs in the next few weeks, describing speculation on impending job cuts as "Nonsense".
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STARLIT night shadows across the Findhorn River.
In a fishing hut, a figure huddles in a corner, looking at the odd-shaped ice floating past, the broken doorway.
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ECONOMISTS often refer to the laws of supply and demand when trying to explain one of the most basic reasons for major fluctuations in the price for a given product or service. It stands to reason that the rarer something is, or the more difficult it is to procure, the higher will be the asking price, and the value placed upon it.
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THE solitary stone sits alongside a couple of lonesome pines on a track high above the village of Cromdale on Speyside. Marked as Clach nam Piobair - the Piper's Stone - on the map, it is linked to the Battle of Cromdale in 1690.
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